Steele v. State

Thirty-nine-year-old Thomas Steele, Jr., was convicted for the first degree sodomy of a thirteen-year-old child. Sentence was twelve years' imprisonment. Three issues are raised on this appeal from that conviction.

I

Steele contends that the State failed to prove a prima facie case of sodomy because "it failed to prove that the defendant placed his tongue on the prosecutrix's sex organs." Appellant's brief, p. 18.

Sodomy involves "deviate sexual intercourse" which is defined as "[a]ny act of sexual gratification . . . involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another."…